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• W872839645 abstract "AbstractMetaphor is more than a linguistic tool; it is a deep process of the human mind. As such, it is a core part of how we develop relationships and communicate with each other. As a deep process, it is both cognitive and emotional. Metaphoric fluidity is a key feature of psychological processes supporting our efforts to cross borders and boundaries. Metaphor is a deep and surface, psychological and linguistic, mode of communicating embodied experience that is beyond words. This article argues that metaphoric fluidity is central to organisational change, and that frozen metaphoric processes, illustrated by the silo metaphor and case example, block change.What is most human is not rationalism but the uncontrolled and incontrollable continuous surge of creative radical imagination. (Castoriadis, 1987, p. 194; 1997)Metaphor is for most people a device of poetic imagination and the rhetorical flourish-a matter of extraordinary rather than ordinary language. Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason, most people think they can get along perfectly well without metaphor. We have found, on the contrary, that metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system in terms of which we both think and act is fundamentally metaphorical in nature ... But our conceptual system is not something we are normally aware of. (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980, p. 3)Key words: metaphor, metaphoric process, borders, boundaries, silos, contemporary psychoanalytic theory, unconscious imagination, transference, psychological regression, potential and transitional space, the analytic third, frozen and fixed metaphors, fluid and open metaphors, organisational changeINTRODUCTIONMetaphor is often understood as a figure of speech, or the act of seeing something in terms of something else as in a symbol or implicit comparison. Metaphor is also an imaginative and unconscious process of mind central to the possibility of constructing meaningful, relational, and collective exchange. It is at the heart of our mind's conceptual systems.Metaphor transcends words. It provides connections. It bridges diverse people, groups, and organisations. Metaphor is shaped by emotional as well as cognitive unconscious process. Metaphor is rooted in the human facility to communicate experience and emotion, and to make human contact. With metaphor individuals have the potential to experience resonance with (alien) others, across borders and boundaries (self and other, subject and object), and amid diverse groups. In this article, I explore the unconscious imagination and its metaphoric processes, out of which meaningful human experience, mutual understanding, and consensual validation, originate. From a psychoanalytic perspective, I submit that the fluidity and openness of metaphoric processes and unconscious imagination produce group and organisational change; as it is also true that frozen and closed, or fixed metaphoric processes, block the potential for positive transformation and change. I wish to begin with a brief case example of frozen metaphor, intended to illuminate the discussion of metaphoric processes, imagination, and change, to follow.Case example: frozen metaphors and public worksMany years ago a public works department requested an organisational study.2 The presenting problem articulated by a newly appointed director described an agency threatened with legislative defunding due to routinely exceeding budgetary limitations and scheduled time-tables for work completion on construction projects. In fact, the agency had gained a poor reputation for construction sites where workers stood by equipment awaiting authorisation for change orders and requisitions. The new director felt as if he had inherited a dysfunctional agency.In the process of organisational assessment3 including interviews, observations, factual and historical data collection, participants frequently referred to themselves as working in silos. …" @default.
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